“Not only the Jamaat, but the BNP is also threat for the country and its constitution,” said the minister while addressing a view-exchange meeting with different professional bodies and civil society leaders at a Khulna city hotel on Friday.
Bangladesh Betar organised the awareness creating meeting with a view to create awareness among mass people about the adverse impact of terrorism and militancy.
Pointing fingers at the BNP, the minister said people, who could not succeed through arson terrorism, were conducting terrorism activities across Bangladesh.
“The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are responsible for the rise of militancy in the country. It does not matter whether BNP will go to parliamentary elections or not. Rise of militancy will not take place in the country without patronisation of Khaleda Zia,” he said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken stern steps to curb militancy, he said referring to the success of law enforcers in combating the militants at Sholakia, Gulshan and Kalyanpur.
Inu who is also President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), said: “People of all walks of life are united now. The mass people would resist all the conspiracies of the BNP-Jamaat.”
He said the terrorism and militancy were introduced in the country through the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Replying to questions, he said: "The defeated forces of 1971 are again hatching conspiracies to jeopardise the pace of development of the country. Time has come now to be united and fight against all perpetrators who are conspiring against the country.”
Lawmaker Mizanur Rahman Mizan, JSD Organising Secretary Khalid Hossain, President of Khulna district Imam Parisad Moulana Md Saleh, Vice-Chancellor of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Professor Dr Mohammed Alamgir, Khulna Divisional Commissioner Md Abdus Samad, Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner Nibash Chandra Majhi, Deputy Inspector General of Khulna Range Police SM Moniruzzaman and Khulna Police Super Niamul Haque Molla also addressed the programme.